Using the iPad to Enhance Your Curriculum

*All handouts will be electronic and found throughout this wiki site.

AGENDA and RESOURCES

Overview of iPad 2

...........iPad / Hardware Controls (Keyboard shortcuts)
...........Software Controls - Power on/off is your personal Tech Support
...........Settings - General - Accessibility - Speak Selection (on) / Mutitasking Gestures (on) / Keyboard - International Keyboards (Add "Emoji")
...........Individualize your iPod Touch (Review of Multitouch-Gestures)
...........Keyboard Shortcuts
...........iTunes Accounts -How to purchase or install Apps - Discussion about personal iTunes accounts. (Free/Paid) - Settings (Store)

• How to create an iTunes Account (Simple and Recommended): http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2731
• How to create an iTunes Account without a Credit Card (A Bit More Complicated): http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2534
• Apps Store App - This is conceived as a pain up front, but once accounts are created, Apps become fluid and intuitive.
• Apps for today's session -
• Dropbox - If possible follow the following link to download and install: http://db.tt/Zv4pjY1
• Chrome - New web browser
• iBooks - Books - textbooks - PDF's
• Skype - Video Conferencing
• Socrative - Student and Teacher - Student Response - Assessment tool (We'll use this stie to demo this product - Live demo)
• NearPod - Student and Teacher - Game changing App for 1-to-1 iPad implementations (You need all three links to set up account)
• Showme - Interactive whiteboard
• Sock Puppet - Creation
• PaperPort Notes - Speech to text app (NOT FREE - $4.99) - Optional
• iTunes U - Teacher Resources
• Books HD - 23 Thousand Free Books
• Books - Pick the reader that works for your needs. A couple of recommendations: (Books HD - Kindle - nook - vBookz PDF)
• Cloudon - Microsoft Office (FREE)
• OnLIve Desktop - (Local device only - Cloud support and web support - $4.99/month - multiple users bandwidth limitations)
• uPad lite- Consider the uPad Full Version (4.99) very worth it!
• **32 Apps for improving your writing**.
• Zite - Personal Learning Magazine (A must for every teacher)
• Evernote - Note taking and repository for cool stuff
• Snapseed - Photoshop - Photo editing (NOT FREE - $4.99) - Optional
• TourWrist - Virtual tours of cool places
• Sock Puppets - Instructional
• Google - Search
• Zig Zag - White Board
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Welcome Activity**

• iPad in Education Video

...........iBooks Textbook Video
...........Skype Demo
Discussion: What does the iPad mean for education? Do a Google search and click the following link to share your answer: http://goo.gl/r4hCL

Activity 1: What does this mean for how we instruct students.

...........History of education -- What changes have you seen? What age of instruction are you practicing?
...........Hybrid? Online? One to One? - The Must-Have EdTech Cheat Sheet for instruction Kathy Schrock's Bloom iPad Links
...........Safari - How to use - Bookmark - Create an app - Reading List


Activity 2: iPad as a Digital Camera

...........Camera - Take some still shots - Digital Video (become familiar with the camera) - Screen Shot
...........Creating activities that students "create that teach"
...........Sock Puppet -- Setup account and create a learning activity
...........ShowMe -- Setup account and create a whiteboard lesson or activity and record your work!
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Activity 3: Instructional Assessment and Curriculum

...........Socrative -- Setup account - Demo
...........NearPod - Setup account - Demo
...........NearPod Simulation
...........Check out Whiteboard, Zig Zag, Explain Everything($2.99) and Evernote, or Educreations (Watch Explain Everything w/ Evernote video)

Activity 4: eBooks (Books Readers)

• iBooks
• iTunes U
• Free Books - See links above
• The End of Books? (Blog Post)

Activity 5: Word Processing

• Cloudon
• PaperPort Notes
• Notes - The one from Apple is awesome - but the link is for the top 10 other Notes apps
• Google
• Onlive Desktop
• uPad lite -- Consider the uPad full version ($4.99) very worth it!
• Editing Google Docs on The Go (Blog Post & Video)
• 32 Apps for improving your writing.

Writing Activity:
Open Cloudon / Dropbox and create a word document. Configure with Dropbox to save documents. Check out all the settings and formatting tools.
Open Google and create a new doc. Check out these settings and formatting tools.
Open PaperPort NotesI and create an audio paper - edit and save.

• Compare and contrast the differences and consider when and where each would be appropriate to use in your classroom.

Reflection Activity

• How do you plan to use the iPad in your role as an educator?
• How do you plan to use it with students?

Additional Resources:
...........Zite - Free
...........Evernote - Free
...........Snapseed - $$
...........TourWrist - Free

NEW: iBooks Textbooks and iBook's Author
...........iPad as 1:1 Device

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Explain Everything and Evernote

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